Conclusion 7.Conclusion to the step-by-step approach to Enabling Citizens The cases cited in Part II all readily show how Citizen Enablement, and even Citizen Empowerment, is entirely possible for both academics (and other learning providers) and their citizen partners; all who can learn to work together in powerful and co-creative ways. Such processes can also […]
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Leadership for Citizen Enablement 6.Focus of the leadership facilitation for Citizen Enablement to ensure success Our studies on hundreds of best practice cases, written up as part of the UPBEAT project (Generic Process A, page 26) and in subsequent documents by the 10 Universities who took part in the UPBEAT exercise, have shown Academic Enablers
Leadership for Cultural Change 5.Leadership for Cultural Change James picked up, quite far into his developing conversation with Peter, that no mention had been made about the importance of leadership in ensuring necessary cultural change for the better. For leadership is firstly required to enable citizens to develop a solution to their problems and issues
Why to How Enablement 4.First Steps towards Citizen Enablement: from ‘Why’ to ‘How” The most important first step in any project seeking to engender Citizen Enablement, for both academics and citizens alike, is the need to understand the ‘why’ of what they want to do, before they agree the ‘what’ or the ‘how’. Increasingly,
Sociological Perspective 3.The Sociological Perspective that drive James’s desire for important cultural change for the ‘Good’ of all Citizens – their ‘Whys’ From James’ perspective, early in his career he became aware of the work of social anthropologist, Mary Douglas (1966), and one of her disciples, Michael Thompson. Their work indicated that different cultures
Why or Central Aspiration 2.Central Aspiration of the Authors or ‘Why’ we are doing this. After Covid 19, many Citizens may feel it is worth trying to develop a recipe for a ‘new normal way of working’, where one size does not fit all, but they become Enabled to change their local world, for personal
Executive Summary Hopefully, to ease understanding by the reader, we quickly, but briefly, summarise and reveal the structure of the paper now. a) Firstly, the aspirations for the approach being used is clarified to let the reader understand ‘why’ the work is the way it is and it’s particular intentions. In short we are inviting
